We have been discussing what makes a good friend. These are some of the things we thought made a good friend:
We are all going to try and be the best friend we can be!
Well we are shocked to learn there are so many children who don’t go to school around the world. BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT WE NEED 1.7 MILLION TEACHERS IN THE WORLD, we learnt this when we were looking at our Rights and Actions. We have been looking at our rights:
*the right to a good education
*health care
*food and water
*play and rest
We have also been discussion when it is important to think about our actions like listening and sharing.
Bye!
We have had a busy start back to school. We are all enjoying meeting up with our old friends and make new ones. We are working hard and enjoying maths especially.
We have been learning about our rights and making our class charter. As part of this work we designed our IDEAL TEACHER, we think they should be – nice, good, loving, challenging, caring, cool, kind, lively, scientific and mathematical! So not too much for Miss Holwill and Mrs Ghafoor to live up to!
We have also been writing our personal targets for this term. These include:
*working with larger numbers.
*sounding and blending our tricky words.
*writing longer stories.
*playing with different people.
So we have set ourselves a challenge too!
Bye for this week…
P3h
Here are some of the things we have enjoyed so far this week:
“Learning halfway between two numbers, for example, halfway between 40 and 60 is 50” (valerija).
“Working with numbers within 1000” (Zoe).
“Making handprint hens in art” (Mahad).
“Everything!” (Aidan).
“Making muddy pigs!” (Rebecca).
“Spending time with my friends” (Evie).
“Doing SRA cards in reading” (Emma).
“Learning new words in spelling” (Callum D).
P3lm have been enjoying the farm topic. Following our visit to the farm, we have been thinking about milk production and what happens on a dairy farm. We have been looking at milking times and milk production and linking our learning to maths as well as thinking about what we use milk for as its not just to drink! Did you know that cows each drink about 55 litres of water a day? Have you got any other farm related facts?
We have been studying trees in art. We began by looking at the trees in the playground, focussing on the textures and patterns on bark, branches and leaves and then drew a picture of a tree from observation, using charcoal.
Next, we imagined a tree was part human with a face, arms and hands by drawing these around a photo our own heads. We looked closely at the lines of branches on trees and how they grow from each other, becoming thinner and thinner. Using our pencil in different ways to vary the line of the branches; thick and thin.
We are proud of our display, which you can see below.
This week has been very interesting! The hexagons have been learning about dividing and linking it to fractions and times tables! It’s brilliant how maths all links! Our spelling has included the pattern ee and ea.
We have been discussing the most important event of the year in Bathgate: John Newland’s Day/ Bathgate Procession. We talked about who John Newland was, why we have characters like Walter and Marjory and why Bathgate does not have a Gala Day. We have been drawing the characters and writing the story of John Newland. Our aim is to explain this to everyone so they know!
We have had another excellent week in primary 3! Our art was topic linked and we made a farming picture with moving parts. We were allowed to use anything we wanted and we used our creative skills – said Gemma. Isla said this was the best part of her week.
The best part of the week for many of 3b was our visit to Almond Valley Heritage Centre. We saw and did lots of interesting things like saw pigs, stroked a cow and touched a goose egg. We learned that a baby turkey is a poult and we know a baby goose is a gosling. We are enjoying our farming topic.
We have learned that there are different kinds of triangles like isosceles, right-angled and equilateral. We talked about lines of symmetry and discovered how many each of these triangles had. We also discovered a parallelogram has no lines of symmetry!
We were all reading and trying to work out words that filled in the blanks but fitted in the story. We have to think carefully about this but we are becoming proficent!
This week’s book recommendations:
Jessie is looking forward to reading Rusty.
Sarah is enjoying Never Kiss Frogs.
Cameron Brown says Rusty is very worth while to read.
Lexis has read a Laura book before and is looking forward to reading another in the series.
Primary three had a brilliant time at Almond Valley Heritage Centre today. We got to see lots of different animals; the massive pig and donkeys were definite favourites! We also got to touch a gosling which was only three days old. Different words used to describe it were; soft, fluffy, bony, tickly and cuddly. It made lovely cheep cheep noises and we learned a lot about it. Aaron McNicol asked if it was a boy or girl and interestingly it was too early to tell. It depends on the shape of the wings and they were too small and fluffy to work it out.
We had fun on the tractor ride and playing in the Adventure Zone with our friends. Luckily the weather stayed dry so we got to burn off all our energy on the trampolines!
It was a wonderful day out, Primary three would definitely recommend it!
In the Air Rade Shelter.
..our Celebrating Success song ‘Feeling Groovy’. We hope visitors enjoyed it!
We have chosen our best writing for the Young Writer’s competetion.
In PE, we have been learning about stamina.
We have been reminding ourselves about fractions and comparing them.
Our learning about farms has included dairy farms and we have drawn an aerial view of the farm we designed. We are looking forward to our farm visit next week!
Now that the weather is turning a bit nicer we’ll be making the most of the great outdoors!
This morning, P3lm wrote farm related spelling words on the ground with chalk and drew pictures to illustrate each word. It was lots of fun!
P3LM have been working hard this week preparing for our ‘Ancient Egypt’ assembly on Friday 26th April 2013.
We have been learning a new song to perform with cool dance moves, thanks to Polina!
We have also been working hard to learn our lines and be clear, loud and confident for our audience.
We can’t wait to share our learning, we hope you can make it along to see us.
From, P3LM
P3 were given an Ancient Egyptian project task for homework, which has been a huge success. On Thursday the boys and girls shared their personal projects with the class and all learned something new from them.
We were all blown away by the fantastic models and interesting information booklets; they were to such a high standard.
The children had a wonderful time sharing their learning and showing off their creativity!
I would like to say a massive well done to the children for all their hard work and effort with this task and also to parents and carers for their input.
Below are a few pictures of Rebecca, Aidan and Valerija presenting their projects to the class with pride.
Mrs Laidlaw
Well, it’s been another busy week in Ancient Egypt for P3b!
We have written some wonderful stories about our lives as Egyptian gods and goddesses – we really put our imaginations to good use.
We learned more about mummification and designed our own canopic jars to store the liver, intestines, stomach and lungs. The designs were beautiful but you probably wouldn’t want to look inside!
We even practised our times tables by loading up a camel.
Our personal projects on Ancient Egypt have been handed in and we’re looking forward to sharing our learning with one another – it’s one of the best ways to learn!
P3 were very lucky to meet Aileen Paterson, the author of the very famous Maisie books.
She spent time a lot of time telling us all about herself and answering questions. Aileen read us a story and drew us a picture of Maisie. It was fantastic!
Our challenge was to work together and build a pyramid using a variety of materials. The pyramids were all different shapes and sizes. Take a look at a co
uple of photos, taken during the challenge.
This week we learned about writing a newspaper report and wrote one about Tutankhamun being crowned as king. We gave it a Fist of 5: some of us found it tricky!
In maths, we have been learning clockwise and anticlockwise. We know it will help with directions. We have been using: left and right, quarter turn, half turn, full turn, forward and backward.
Our art this week has been making pyramids using clay!
Ramsay said: It was fun because it was messy!
Geo said: I liked how the clay was soft.
Lucy said: I liked how the clay was easy to model.
We knew we had to work carefully so we didn’t handle the clay too much or the heat from our hands would dry it out.
We have been reading text and showing we understand it. Some of us finished the sentences; some of us read the story about ‘Under the bed’ and then answered questions. In our reading groups, we were asking each other questions that recalled parts of the book and explained why things happened.
We enjoyed discussing then making a poster about Energy Balance. In PE we enjoyed playing some team games! We used lots of energy! TEAM is Together Everyone Achieves More!
We have been very busy with our times tables by looking for patterns and making links. We have been focusing on the 5 and 10 times table. We have been making games to help remember them!
Our writing was ‘Life as a Scottish Child’ and our targets were:
to write about life in Scotland and what we did that was traditional
punctuate accurately
make use of openers
Our Scots learning has included tartan and we discovered many tartans on a Clan map. Kilts now have buckles but when people use to wear them they wrapped them around themselves and secured them with a badge. We also painted our own tartan.
We have enjoyed our learning this week!
P3lm started their Ancient Egyptian learning theme this week. We have discussed what we already know and what we would like to learn about. We wrote a set of instructions on how to build a pyramid, which was good fun (Meg). We have also been learning about the importance of the River Nile. Here are some facts about the River Nile:
“it is the longest river in Africa and the world” (Callum D).
“people travelled by boat along the River Nile” (Aaron).
“Every year the River Nile floods between June and September” (Iona).
“Some Egyptians washed in the Nile” (David).
“Only the rich had wells for fresh water, others drank from the Nile” (Meadow).
“The ancient Egyptians lived and farmed along the Nile, using the soil to produce food for themselves and their animals” (Mrs Laidlaw).
We are looking forward to learning so much more!
P3lm have been learning their times tables using lots of different methods. Our favourite has been the 2 times table rap. We have learned our multiplication facts using this rap and have enjoyed singing, dancing and rapping along to the music. We are going to be using different types of music to help us learn each times table and look forward to sharing each song with our friends and family.
